A recently introduced Google account sync feature has been blamed by software development firm Retool after sophisticated hackers gained access to its systems and targeted over two dozen of its customers from the cryptocurrency sector. Retool is a San Francisco, California-based company that provides a development platform designed for building custom business tools without the ..
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Personal details of thousands of police officers and staff from Greater Manchester Police have been hacked from a company that makes identity cards, the second such cyberattack to affect a major British police force in less than a month. Details on identity badges and warrant cards, including names, photos and identity numbers or police collar ..
North Korean hackers are suspected of stealing roughly $53 million worth of cryptocurrency from crypto exchange CoinEx, after a private key was leaked. The incident was identified on September 12, when the exchange observed “anomalous withdrawals from several hot wallet addresses” in which CoinEx was temporarily storing user assets. “It is currently preliminarily determined that ..
Airbus has launched an investigation after a hacker leaked information allegedly stolen from the French aerospace giant’s systems. Cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock reported on Tuesday that a hacker who uses the online moniker ‘USDoD’ claimed earlier this month on a cybercrime forum that they had hacked Airbus. The same hacker previously claimed to have ..
Iran-linked cyberespionage group Charming Kitten has been observed infecting 34 victims with a new backdoor, cybersecurity firm ESET reports. Believed to be operating on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and also tracked as APT42, Ballistic Bobcat, Mint Sandstorm (formerly Phosphorus), and NewsBeef, Charming Kitten has been targeting activists, government organizations and journalists ..
Hospitality and entertainment giant MGM Resorts on Monday said a “cybersecurity issue” forced the shutdown of certain computer systems, including the websites for some of the biggest Las Vegas and New York properties. A brief note posted to X (the website formerly known as Twitter) said external cybersecurity experts and law enforcement are involved in ..
The hacker group Anonymous Sudan has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Telegram in retaliation to the messaging platform’s decision to suspend their primary account, threat intelligence firm SOCRadar reports. Claiming to be a hacktivist group motivated by political and religious causes, Anonymous Sudan has orchestrated DDoS attacks against organizations in Australia, Denmark, France, ..
The FBI says that the North Korea-linked hacking group Lazarus is responsible for the theft of $41 million in cryptocurrency from online casino and betting platform Stake.com. The incident occurred on September 4, when the Australian-Curaçaoan online platform Stake.com announced that hackers had stolen funds from its Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) hot ..
One of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias has arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations, an official of the group said Saturday. The arrests were carried out in territory controlled by the United Wa State Army, or UWSA, in eastern Shan state in raids ..
Enlarge / Karim Khan speaks at Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace during the visit of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Bogota, Colombia, on June 6, 2023. reader comments 19 with For years, some cybersecurity defenders and advocates have called for a kind of Geneva Convention for cyberwar, new international laws that would ..
